klaire driving

She looks good in the driver seat, doesn't she???

Outside pics

If you ever wonder why there's usually only pictures of my younger kids, it's because the older boys are too cool to get their pictures taken.

empty tomb

Our Sunday school campaign this spring was "The Empty Tomb." I was surprised to find out that here in Cincinnati there was a man that actually built a replica of Jesus' tomb not too far from where we live. As a reward to the kids who were faithful, the church took them to visit the tomb. It was in the middle of nowhere, but overlooked Cincinnati. The view was amazing. And the tomb was incredible.

Dress up

While the older boys were dissecting owl pellets, this is what the other kids were doing. This was much more to my cup of tea.

homeschooling

A friend of mine and fellow homeschool mom invited us to join them on a study of owls. The kids did lapbooks and dissected owl pellets. Then they proceeded to make skeletons from the bones founded in their owl pellets. The boys loved it....mom...not so much. I was very content watching all the younger kids while Wendy helped with the owl pellets.

Spring

I love that spring is here...well, except for the horrendous allergies that I've been experiencing. However, allergies are a small price to pay to see God's beauty through the green trees and beautiful flowers coming up everywhere. And of course, the weather is an added bonus. Going outside is so nice. We've been doing it as much as we can. Baseball, sidewalk chalk, bug hunting, bikes, and bubbles are happening all the time around here.

new choir special

Here's the children's choir from recently. Blake had a little solo part.

One mismatched girl

I don't remember if I went to the store or what, but one day when I got home, I found this on Makenna. Guess who had helped her get dressed?? Yup, DADDY!! Apparently he let her pick out what she wanted to wear. Lovely, huh? Too bad she forgot to put her little pink shirt on under her jumper shirt. Crazy little girl!

Easter

Grandparents

Eric's parents came for a visit Easter weekend. We took them to the zoo and Montgomery Inn on Saturday.




Sunday was Easter. I'll post more pictures of that later, and Monday we all went to Mammoth Caves. Was that a cool place or what?


After Mammoth caves, we went to a place where they had a giant slide, bumper cars, and go carts. Luke and Blake did the giant slide with us. And then everyone did the go carts. The younger kids rode with mom or dad, but Blake and Luke got to drive one. Since I was driving, I didn't get pictures of them, but Grandma Alma did.

MIA for awhile, huh?

No I haven't fallen off the face of this world, just off of the bloggy world. I'm trying to climb back on though. Been a little busy lately with school and stuff. I do have lots of stuff to blog, so I'm planning on getting a few posts up this week. I haven't disappeared for those faithful few that still read it. I leave you with this one pic to make you all smile.

goofy kids

Shopaholic

Makenna at Sears the other day

She decided that she needed all this stuff! She was a little upset when Mommy didn't oblige!

I've jumped on the bandwagon

of couponing...... Lookee what I got today for less than $11.00 at Walgreens.

Picnic at the park

Last Saturday Eric wanted to take a picnic at the park since it was such a beautiful day. I so was not feeling the whole picnic thing. But he had the idea to just take brats and chips, and we could just grill out. I tried to convince him that it was gonna be a lot of work, but he said, "What's so hard about it? We take the brats, mustard, and ketchup, and all should be good. " Yeah, right....

So within a couple of hours, Eric grabbed the stuff that he wanted to take and placed it on the counter. I saw it there, and figured that I would go ahead and put it in a bag. All kids were ready to go, so off we go, but not before Eric asked me if I had the lighter and to make sure it worked. So, I ran into my scrapbook room to get the lighter that I use for my candles all the time.

Off we went to Kroger to run in and get some charcoal. Half way to Kroger, I realized that we had forgotten the Brats. They weren't on the counter when I was putting them in the bags, and I had forgotten to get them out of the fridge. We get to Kroger and Eric runs in to get the food. As I'm sitting in the car feeding Klaire, I remember that we didn't have any hot dog buns. I give Klaire to Luke, and run inside hoping to find Eric right away. Thankfully, I did, and thankfully the man is brilliant and knew that we didn't have hot dog buns.

After Kroger we head back home to get the brats. One might ask why we didn't just get new ones, but our grill broke last summer, and no one at home is big on brats unless they're from the grill. Eric had just bought the mega pack at Costco, so we just decided to use them. Anyways, we grab the brats and off to the park we go.

After unloading everything, Eric asks for the lighter. I give it to him and take the kids to the play area. Blake comes over about 5 minutes later and tells me that daddy is not happy because the lighter doesn't work. What??? The lighter doesn't work? I use it all the time. How could it not work. I go over to where he is and discover that he has already discovered....the lighter does not work. Needless to say, Eric was not too happy especially since he told me to make sure it worked. After shifting the blame back and forth in a not to kindly fashion along with the lighter, poor Eric had to go to the UDF around the corner just to get something to light the grill. AHHHHH!!!!!

If only he would have believed me! Nothing is easy for us.

But anyways, after all that drama we did succeed to have a good time at the park minus one more incident involving a biker mom and a boy that destroyed Jakeb's sandcastle. (long story....but it all ended well.)

Here's some pics from the day.